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  • January 19 2025 Work Party

    January 19, 2026 /

    My liberation is inextricably tied to yours, and nature awaits the revolution, too. I’m so grateful that Martin Luther King, Jr brought us together for a day to build the more beautiful world we need. Let’s keep going. Read Martin Luther King, Jr’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963).Learn more about King and beloved community.Nature needs liberation as much as we do.

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    February 19 2022 Work Party

    February 22, 2022

    Four years

    November 25, 2023

    October 14 2023 Work Party

    October 28, 2023
  • December 20 2025 Work Party

    December 20, 2025 /

    Last work party of 2025. A fern freed from encroaching creeping buttercup, a willow from the thorny embrace of Himalayan blackberry canes. We find stories in a shard of glass, the metal cap of a fence post, a rusted hatchet. A snake rests in a gentle hand. We made a difference.

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    September 1 2022 Work Party

    September 10, 2022

    April 4 2022 Work Party

    April 10, 2022

    January 16 2023 Work Party MLK Jr Day of Service

    January 22, 2023
  • December 13 2025 Work Party

    December 14, 2025 /

    Hide and seek with emerging Himalayan blackberry, digging a carpet of creeping buttercup, mulch newly blanketing a transect of earth where cut canes marked the spot of our latest root ball excavation. We use the first aid kit for the first time on a conifer, gently wrapping its snapped young trunk with a splint, an act of tender absurdity given the severity of the injury, but equally one of stubborn hope. Every being deserves care. We will not give up on this tree, this community, this land. The creek rushes by with news of the atmospheric river just passed. Hawks cry. I feel myself.

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    July 8 2023 Work Party

    July 23, 2023

    August 17 2024 Work Party

    August 18, 2024

    Watering Our Baby

    July 28, 2022
  • November 28 2024 Work Party

    November 28, 2025 /

    This is what it looks like to be six.

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    February 10 2024 Work Party

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    February 27 2022 Work Party

    March 6, 2022
  • November 8 2025 Work Party

    November 8, 2025 /

    Thank you to the City of Kenmore’s Climate Action Advisory Committee for partnering with Sno-King Watershed Council on our first planting of fall 2025! Community volunteers planted 120 native trees, shrubs, and ferns in an area we had cleared of Himalayan blackberry and other weeds. We saw two deer, unbound roots, climbed on logs. We dug holes, hauled mulch. Exchanged numbers. In common with everything.

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    January 11 2025 Work Party

    January 12, 2025

    January 2022

    January 16, 2022

    January 19 2025 Work Party

    January 19, 2026
  • April 5 2025 Work Party

    April 6, 2025 /

    We took an excursion to the west side of ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis Park. It was good.

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    December 2 2023 Work Party

    December 4, 2023

    October 28 2023 Work Party

    November 5, 2023

    April 23 2023 Work Party Earth Day

    May 7, 2023
  • March 22 2025 Work Party

    March 23, 2025 /

    Mallards, American robins, Spotted Towhees. An otter, a salamander. Raptors, maybe red-tailed hawks? Willows staked along the south bank just weeks ago budding, osoberry, red elderberry, and snowberry becoming green. We reached the tree that a month ago seemed so far away, revealed a goat track hidden by brambles, pulled barbed wire out of the ground. A collapsing empire, cancer, hospice. These things cannot be left behind, but despite their presence, for a moment that stretches to hours, I feel ease.

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    Four years

    November 25, 2023

    April 28 2024 Work Party

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    June 1 2024 Work Party

    June 2, 2024
  • March 8 2025 Work Party

    March 9, 2025 /

    You are a gift.

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    May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024

    October 26 2024 Work Party

    October 27, 2024

    January 3 2026 Work Party

    January 4, 2026
  • January 25 2025 Work Party

    January 26, 2025 /

    Crisp cold bright blue sky. Himalayan blackberry canes cut. Reed canary grass trimmed. Tree climbed. You hid. You were found.

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    August 10 2024 Work Party

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    May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024

    September 28 2024 Work Party

    September 29, 2024
  • December 29 2024 Walk

    December 30, 2024 /

    Restful solitude, nourishing until the days wear into claustrophobic sameness. Glass door. Rain. Tea. Chair. Keyboard. Caretaking. Glass door. Rain. Thoughts pile up, crowd worn tracks, dress themselves up for disturbing nighttime scenes. I sleep for a day, stumble into an anatomy of melancholy, wonder if the tech billionaires have found a way into my busy brain. Still rain. Still genocide, still oligarchy, still authoritarianism rising, still greed and profit and planetary destruction, still not enough affordable housing, still a sixth mass extinction, still all the suffering I cannot control. I don’t want to move, but I do. I go outside, walk through the seasonal stream, across the swampy field.…

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    May 6, 2023 Work Party

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    September 7 2024 Work Party

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"We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations."
― Pope John Paul II

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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